Victims' parents express anger with 'surprisingly' short prison sentence given to 19-year-old Yoav Bushmitz, who assaulted 8 girls while volunteering as a teacher's aide at an elementary school in northern Israel
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Jul. 8, 2021 11:35 PM
In September 2016, the Judicial Appointments Committee met in what was a particularly volatile session. Things started off pleasantly: Ayelet Shaked, the justice minister at the time and the committee’s chairwoman, read out a poem by President Shimon Peres, who had just died. Several appointments that had been agreed on beforehand were quickly approved. At this point, however, the politicians serving on the committee – which is composed of the justice minister and another cabinet minister, MKs, members of the bar association and Supreme Court justices – raised a demand to meet with judges who are candidates for promotion. “The lawyers [on the committee] meet with the judges, and it’s not fair for the MKs not to meet with them,” Shaked said.
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A video of the incident, which became known in Israel as the “Chocolate Flight”, quickly went viral. It racked up millions of views, spawned an entry in Hebrew Wikipedia, was lampooned on the Israeli equivalent of SNL, and is often invoked to explain internet shaming or, conversely, in references to “the ugly Israeli.”
The video capturing the infamous Chocolate Flight incident.
Airlines take passenger violence seriously and have clear protocols for handling it. El Al is no different. If a passenger uses foul language, for example, or smokes, runs riot, ignores cabin crew requests, assaults another passenger or a crew member or even refuses to leave the toilet, the procedure for handling unruly/disruptive passengers is followed, including standard operating procedures for the captain and crew.